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Word: Proliferate
Speech Type: Verb
Etymology:
late 19th century: back-formation from proliferation
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
prəˈlɪfəreɪt
Dialects: British English
Definition:
increase rapidly in number; multiply
Short Definition:increase rapidly in number
Examples:- the science fiction magazines which proliferated in the 1920s
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